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Bell could discern a soldier by his gait and diagnose anemia from the stain on a shirt cuff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Joe Kent, who served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 2025 to 2026, called it “a stain on our morality.”

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

However, independent human rights experts have rejected the government's conclusion, and the unsolved case remains a stain on Mexico's reputation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

"It feels like there's a forever stain on us here," the third-year university student tells the BBC, as he reflects on the past year since Kirk's death.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Those who desire to be purified cannot be refused and the black stain of his guilt had grown fainter and fainter through his years of lonely wandering and pain.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Scientists have traditionally addressed this problem by adding stains to create greater contrast.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

He also said then that the "appalling atrocity of slavery" stains Britain's history.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Xu's video is artificially brightly coloured - common in microscopy and permitted in the contest - which is usually done manually using stains and dyes on the sample itself.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sweaty, exhausted and streaked in grass stains, the families gathered in the common room for the deciding match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The only colors on her were the ketchup and mustard stains on her apron.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

Sweet carefully transfers the delicate tissue onto a glass slide, where selected cellular structures are stained to make them easier to distinguish under a powerful microscope.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

About 09:41, footage showed Brennan putting his blood stained trousers in a clothing bin near MacGregor's flat.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

But “those stained glass windows are the wife.”

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

His paintings, which look like a mashup of collage and stained glass, are immediate in their impact: Planes of saturated hues snap together in portraits, pictures of parties, and everyday scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I’m wearing my birthday gift from Celia—a new purple flowered shirt that’s identical to the one I stained the morning of the math exam, minus the smoothie spot.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The process involves repeated rounds of cutting, staining, examining, and comparing samples.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

She said Greenpeace had painted over rocks and soil, staining them.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

It doesn’t come on a school-issued bun, nor does it come with the staining might of tomato sauce and ground beef.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

And Blackwell can easily spend weeks meticulously cutting, staining and arranging small geometric tiles into a 24-by-40-inch wall art piece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue- black.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd